A “daemon” for ancient Greeks referred to a divinity or being betwixt and between humans and the supernatural, an inner spirit or inspiring force. Today, “daemon” commonly refers to a discrete background process that handles requests for services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant when not required. Artist Marisa Morán Jahn weaves together her interest in creative technology as myth-making and co-designing with and for historically under-served communities (specifically low-wage workers, immigrants, youth, and women).MORE about Lecture: Daemons Tools Art Tech with Marisa Morán Jahn

In this public lecture, Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley Christina Gerhardt will contextualize the tumultuous sixties in post-war society and politics, its importance for the U.S. and Western European countries as well as its alignment with international liberation and solidarity movements. She will also address the question of how and why the protest movements of the sixties are still relevant today.MORE about The Tumultuous Sixties

The algorithms that have begun to shape human culture are often described as purely computational, but they are profoundly shaped by the people who build and maintain them. Nick Seaver, assistant professor of Department of Anthropology and Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Tufts University, will speak on "Hooking and Trapping: The Anthropology of Algorithmic Systems," drawing on the anthropology of animal trapping to make sense of the very human ideas underlying algorithms designed to hook users' attention.MORE about Design Field Notes with Nick Seaver

It looks at first like an open-and-shut case: a factory owner has been murdered and an employee, Misumi (Koji Yakusho), has confessed to the crime. But when a defense lawyer tries to establish Misumi’s motive, he wanders into a web of uncertainties that are not just factual, but existential.MORE about <em>The Third Murder</em>

Based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle is brimming with Hayao Miyazaki’s customary visual wit and imagination. In an intricately rendered European storybook land, magic lives in the skies above, and sometimes in the towns below.MORE about <em>Howl’s Moving Castle</em>

Howl’s Moving Castle

Burt Lancaster stars as an aging American art historian who has retreated from the world into the dark Roman palazzo he inherited from his Italian mother. When he rents the upstairs flat to a Roman matron (Silvana Mangano) and her amoral gigolo (Helmut Berger), his life’s denouement is invaded by la dolce vita.MORE about <em>Conversation Piece</em>

The nuclear energy industry is at a crossroads: Existing nuclear reactors are struggling to operate economically in some tough markets, and construction of new designs in the U.S. is slow and over budget. At the same time, interest in and development of the next generation of nuclear reactors is growing at an unprecedented rate. Rachel Slaybaugh will discuss how many new technologies, including Data Analytics and Machine Learning, can be impactful.MORE about Creating the Future of Nuclear Energy with Rachel Slaybaugh

Director Ingmar Bergman’s dreamlike family chronicle is set in turn-of-the-century Sweden, where the members of an upper-middle-class theatrical clan are sheltered by their own theatrics from the deepening chaos of the outside world. MORE about Fanny and Alexander

This is the first documentary ever produced about the life and gardens of Beatrix Farrand, the most successful female landscape architect in early 20th century America and one of the founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Includes a Q&A with the filmmaker, Karyl Evans. MORE about <em>The Life and Gardens of Beatrix Farrand</em>

What are the experiences that shape the long lives of those we live among? In The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors, a ninety-two-year-old neighbor recounts the experience of being one of the first US Navy seamen sent into Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two weeks after the atom bombs were dropped. His intimate testimony is paired here with two films exploring two other catastrophic events of World War II — the internment of Japanese Americans and the “death march” of prisoners out of Auschwitz. In each, witnesses struggle to articulate these shattering experiences that were central to their lives.MORE about <em>The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors</em> — Three Films

In 1968, Shinsuke Ogawa and the new filmmaking collective Ogawa Pro “followed a brigade of student activists and joined the growing movement of resistance by the farmers and their allies against the forced eviction from their lands to build a new international airport in Narita, near Tokyo....The film shows how the students and the farmers were able to forge an alliance and find common ground in order to organize and strengthen their cooperative struggle.” (Cinéma du Réel)MORE about <em>The Battle Front for the Liberation of Japan — Summer in Sanrizuka</em>

Disposability, a condition written on the body, is a racial project. Populations that stand in the way of the progress of capital accumulation, are targeted for disposability, and relegated to the realm of “sub-humanity.” Sherene H. Razack is Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies, UCLA, pursues what race has to do with disposability through an examination of the death in custody of a Roma refugee. MORE about Race and the Apparatus of Disposability with Sherene H. Razack

Inequality has become a central focus of policy discussions, but inequality has multiple dimensions and many potential policy interventions. This mini-conference will consider inequality from this broad perspective, with presentations by international experts on the Berkeley faculty and a keynote by Peter Orszag, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Global Co-Head of Healthcare at Lazard, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under the Obama Administration.MORE about Inequality in Life and Death — Policy and Prospect

Join the 10th anniversary of Cleantech to Market. Learn about this year's startups and hear C2M alumni reflect on the program’s 10-year impact. This is an opportunity to hear about the most innovative and impactful clean technologies and network with cleantech professionals and next-generation leaders.MORE about Cleantech to Market Symposium

A book lying on red satin sheets serves as an appropriate opening image for director Luchino Visconti’s last work, a film full of the abstractions of nineteenth-century philosophy and the concerns of twentieth-century political thought.MORE about <em>The Innocent</em>

Born in Israel and educated at Juilliard, pianist Shai Wosner is internationally acclaimed for his insightful interpretations of the music of Schubert. In Wosner's hands, complex works speak with clarity, and here he explores three of the composer's mercurial middle-period sonatas.MORE about Shai Wosner, piano

Shai Wosner

Come enjoy and learn about the botanical garden’s tropical plant collection that provide the spicy ingredients for chai. Deepa Natarajan will lead you on a journey through spice history and and teach you a couple of recipes for making masala chai. Take home a recipe and spice blend and sip lots of chai along the way.MORE about Chai and Spice

Chai and Spice Workshop

Map-based data viewers have been available for several years that reveal where coastal flooding is likely to occur as oceans warm and ice sheets melt. Recently, geologists have begun to study the influence of sea level rise on groundwater, and have concluded that in some coastal areas, as much or more land could flood as a result of rising groundwater than will flood directly from saltwater. Kristina Hill will present both the new maps of coastal groundwater depth and some strategies for urban adaptation.MORE about Maps of a Rising Water Table — The Hidden Component of Sea Level Rise with Kristina Hill